The Veteran's service connection claim for a cervical spine disorder is denied. For the initial rating period on appeal from June 24, 2010 until June 14, 2016, a higher initial disability rating of 30 percent for tension headaches is granted.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's currently diagnosed cervical spine disorders were not caused or worsened by the service-connected TBI residuals and/or tension headaches.
- Claimed conditions
- cervical spine disorder, tension headaches
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- April 4, 2019
- Citation
- 19125602
What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
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- Denied
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- Denied
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- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for an initial compensable rating for tension headaches, alternatively diagnosed as migraine headaches, finding that the evidence did not show characteristic prostrating attacks averaging one in 2 months over the last several months.
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